Late Tang Dynasty Zhenggu Begonia four songs: Shangguo Xiuwa red apricot, begonia wind outside the towel
In the late Tang Dynasty, begonia flowers were widely transplanted from Sichuan to Jiangnan and Luoyang, because they bloomed in mid-spring and were rich and colorful. Some poets said that begonias are not unique to Sichuan, and the original begonias should grow at the same latitude in Sichuan. My interpretation is because of the love of Sichuan celebrities such as Xue Tao in the Middle Tang Dynasty, and begonias have been cultivated on a large scale to make a name for themselves, whether it is sichuan or outside Sichuan, and their reputation is growing day by day.
At that time, many people thought that Sichuan was the hometown of begonias, or Sichuan begonias, and the varieties were more beautiful.
Begonias bloom in mid-spring, slightly after peach plum apricots, filling the gap of spring flowers. Judging from the excavated Dunhuang song lyrics, at least in the late Tang Dynasty and five dynasties, Chang'an Luoyang has been widely planted begonias, its flourishing flowers, brilliant flowers, is a spring pleasure, the family in the begonia flowers to enjoy the spring flowers, spring color is beautiful, in the singing of the singers, let the border guards, give birth to patriotic feelings.
"The spring breeze is intended to uniformly color, and the sales are carried with praise and poetry.
It is best for Ling Li to be in the rain, and the delicacy is all in the desire to open.
Mo Shuo Pink Dai was lazy at the window, and Liang Guangdan was late in penning.
As for the drunken twilight groan, he was not enough to envy him butterfly deep branches. "Late Tang Dynasty · Zheng Gu, "Begonias" (869)
Zheng Gu was born in the late Tang Dynasty, Jiangxi Yichun people, his father was a Liuzhou assassin history, this should be a good middle-class bureaucratic family, life is relatively stable, from a young age Zheng Gu showed outstanding poetic talent, was praised by his father's friend Sikong Tu, saying that when you grow up, you must be the brightest star in the poetry world. Genius has guidance, of course, to play the characteristics of genius. This 18-year-old begonia poem has already shown his extraordinary talent, with a fresh and bright poetry pen, writing beautiful begonias, very grand Tang Atmosphere. Or this grand Tang Qi comes from his adolescence, as well as the late Tang Dynasty changes that have not been perceived and arrived.
Only the begonias are the best in the spring wind, blooming in the most beautiful spring wind in mid-spring, just like a beauty smearing rouge, or is the spring wind specially caring?
Let countless people have the enthusiasm to bring wine and flowers, and give birth to songs.
That beautiful begonia is the most suitable for looking at her in the spring rain at this time, to see her beauty, all when the delicate will open.
Begonia flowers, whether it is weeping begonia or Xifu begonia, because of the umbrella-like inflorescence, has a bud with multiple stalks, the stalk is slender like a tassel, and the flower blooms at the end of the stalk, often when flowering, it will show a certain curvature due to the weight of the flower, and there is a special beauty to people, hanging beauty.
In particular, the stalk can be up to 4 cm long, because the weight of the flowers droops, and the unopened flowers seem to hang upside down like golden bells, forming a unique beauty.
And when they are all open, there is a whole gorgeous splendor.
Therefore, with full brushstrokes, Zheng Gu wrote the flexible and beautiful and anthropomorphic beauty of the begonia blossoms in the drizzle. The begonias that are about to bloom are the best looking.
It was as if she were a mournful girl, looking down at the window and lazily, only seeing the silhouette. Writing begonias is easy to flow in the fragrance, such as using Yang Guifei as an analogy, beauty is beautiful, but Yang Guifei is a wife concubine, easy to make people associate.
Of course, the young Zheng Gu did not like such an analogy, he liked the beautiful and messy girl, let him have a pure and romantic thoughts, so he saw the begonias he thought of, it was really not something that the painter could paint, because they had basically been routined on the begonias, and they could draw a picture of the spring sleep of a young woman at every turn.
And Zheng Gu's mood at this time is still with the clarity and romance of a teenager, as if attracted by the pink silhouette of a beautiful girl, he is willing to surround her like a bee butterfly. He said that envious butterflies can stay on the begonia branches and dance.
Why is this poem beautiful? Wrote begonias and his own juvenile heart.
And at this time, Zheng Gu was a good teenager, studying in Chang'an, aiming to sprint to the imperial examination, and what he saw was like Jia Baoyu in the era of the Grand View Garden, pure, upward, youthful, and beautiful.
The poem made him famous as a teenager. 、
"Begonia wind outside the towel, sleeves for no reason to provoke Shu dust."
He Nuan and on the day of picking vegetables, Lonely is not a flower explorer.
I don't think the ant wine rushes to the lungs, but I remember that the fish is covered with illness.
What happened late after the light rain, Jin Jiang Chun learned Qu Jiang Chun. Late Tang Dynasty · ZhengGu Shu Zhongchun (Ichisaku Rain) (883)
World War I and World War II were unsuccessful. Zheng Gu's examination path can be described as a twist and turn. However, this is also very easy to understand, the imperial examination is not used to select talents, but to eliminate talents, especially in the late Tang Dynasty. Under the same conditions, without a deep background, just wait for the next time. Presumably, Zheng Gu's father is also a Qing official, there is no back door to go, from 20 years old to 32 years old, he took the exam at least 4 times.
Then, at the age of 32, the Huangchao Rebellion broke out, Chang'an was captured, and the war raged for days, and he and his family fled the war and came to Sichuan. At this time, his parents were already old, and he had a poem in Sichuan: "What he knows is a secret investment, and two lines of clear tears flow forward." That is to say, he had to come as a last resort, because to survive he had to do the work he was unwilling to do, he was under a certain shogunate, enduring the torment and repression that he was unwilling to do in his life. Or maybe they want to cultivate their own land, fish and dry the fields, but in front of survival and family, what can they do?
But here are the begonia flowers, the famous flowers of Sichuan, brilliant as a brocade.
A gust of begonia wind blew, and begonia flowers fell on him. He probably never thought of coming to Sichuan in this way before.
This time it was a difficult time for the family, and he came so passively.
It was the mid-spring festival in early February, and he used to take the initiative to go to the Chang'an Qujiang River to see the begonias, but the begonias were now blooming in front of his eyes, and he had other feelings.
Chang'an was captured by Huang Chao, peasants revolted, warlords fought, and his dreams and roads were cut off.
Now I can't retreat, I'm stuck here, and I'm sick and tired.
Only the begonia flowers, the light rain blooming, the beautiful and clear, as if it is the same as the Chang'an Qujiang River. Just Chang'an, when will he be able to go back?
"The thick and fragrant spring fills the Shu countryside, and the warbler intestines are half broken with the wind and rain."
Huanhua Creek is sad, and Zimei has no intention of carrying it forward. Late Tang Dynasty · Zheng Gu, "Enjoying Begonias in Shuzhong (883)"
Zheng Gu, who was stranded in Sichuan, easily thought of the sage Du Fu. If he had chosen to come to Sichuan, there must have been a reason for Du Fu, because in the late Tang Dynasty, Du Fu had become the spiritual coordinates of many literati and patriotism.
But Zheng Gu, who can really feel Du Fu's ordeal almost the whole time, is one of the few people.
Like Du Fu, he felt the great changes of the times, but the Anshi rebellion was finally quelled, Zheng Gu was still in the process, of course, he believed that this was a shock of the Tang Dynasty, and it would definitely be Haiyan Heqing, but what about the tribulations and sufferings in the process?
He specially went to Du Fu Caotang to visit, and saw that here on the Huanhua Creek, begonias are in full bloom.
Zheng Gu most likely did not know that in Du Fu's era, begonias were not so widely planted, and Du Fu's grass hall, which was originally a temporary residence, had a little idle land, and Du Fu wanted to plant agricultural crops, such as vegetables, bamboo, and jujube trees, to urgently solve the family's eating problem.
Or Huang Siniang's family has it, thousands of flowers are low in pressure, but Du Fu did not have special emotions on the begonia flowers, because at that time, the begonias were called tang pears, red begonia pears, which were wild pear trees.
It was Xue Tao of the Middle Tang Dynasty after Du Fu who planted his residence with this kind of begonia by the edge of the stream with his female love. So much so that when posterity imagined Du Fu in the caotang, it must have been a begonia.
When Zheng Gu came, Du Fu and Xue Tao both became historical celebrities, where the two compartments overlapped, and the begonia flowers bloomed all over the Huanhua Creek and the Caotang.
It's magnificent.
The first intuition of Zheng Gu standing here is, of course, that the begonias are so gorgeous and beautiful, the wind and rain are desolate, and the flowers are more magnificent.
He wrote a famous poem, why did Du Fu not have a poem about begonias?
What does Zheng Gu think, I know, falling flowers and wind, sad and chaotic world, Du Fu and him are no different, if Du Fu is there, such a desolate beauty, how not to shake the soul?
This poem sparked a debate in the Song Dynasty over why Du Fu did not write begonias, and one of the strange mainstream views was that Du Fu's mother was called Begonia, so Du Fu could not write.
That view is lovely. Sichuan cannot be without Du Fu, nor can it be without begonias, they must be perfectly unified and explained.
But I like this poem because Zheng Gu has that kind of wordless pathos in his heart.
Zheng Gu was a very righteous patriot, and as he wished, the Huangchao Rebellion eventually subsided like the Anshi Rebellion.
He continued to move towards his dream, and at the age of 36, he was finally admitted to the academy.
After being admitted to the jinshi list, the first thing he did was to return to Sichuan.
There are stranded family members, there are infinite begonias, and du fu caotang that gives him spiritual support.
"The kingdom of Shangguo is red and apricot, and the deep stream is self-illuminated with green moss."
A low band of flowing warblers sleeps, several pieces of madness and dancing butterflies fly.
Hate the road can not move, but no one and the painting will return.
There is already a new spring laurel in the hand, thanks to the smoke and incense into the clothes. (887) Late Tang Dynasty · Zheng Gu "After the promotion of the first into Shu through Luocun Road to see the begonia blooming occasionally inscription"
As a jinshi, Xinglin Spring Feast, he naturally participated, but after experiencing the ups and downs of the chaotic world, he loved the Sichuan begonias that accompanied him for many years.
Don't say that the apricot blossoms in Chang'an City are blooming, I love this begonia at the edge of the stream in Sichuan, opening freely.
The low-hanging begonia, the warbler slid over, hanging like sleep, and the wind blew up the petals and flew everywhere.
It's too far from the capital to bring you back to the capital, you are so beautiful, but no one can paint your innocence.
I already have osmanthus in my hand, thank you, Begonia, thank you for accompanying me all the way, all the way to send ah.
Most of Zheng Gu's poems are fresh and fluent. He really likes begonia flowers, from the juvenile Chang'an begonia to the middle-aged Sichuan begonia. Few people have opened the background of his time, he is actually in a chaotic world all his life, it is very turbulent, but he loves his Tang Dynasty, and rarely uses negative words to describe his ups and downs. But the more so, the more you can find the depth of that sustenance and embrace.
In Zheng Gu's short life, he only lived for 60 years, entered Shu many times, in addition to escaping the war, he loved the begonia flowers here and loved Du Fu, who had lived the same rough life.
Begonias are the flower of his life, the flower of luck, the flower of his soul.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.